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*A RECIPIENT OF THE 2002 Nobel Peace Prize* and the thirty-ninth President of the United States serving from 1977 to 1981, James Earl "Jimmy Carter" once said :
"I have one life and one chance to make it count for something...............My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference".
President Jimmy Carter is a man in favour of racial tolerance and integration and he was the only white man in his hometown of Plains, Georgia who had in the 1950s, refused to join the White Citizens Council, an organization devoted to the preserving segregation between whites and blacks.
To have seen this very great human live his life in the highest traditions of humanity, the World Students Society, most respectfully, dedicates this post to his life, values, principles and accomplishments.
And on The World Students Society, I once again stop and look at the lasting legacy of the very best version of these students and their real selves..............
WE all stop, to pay respects to these students of The World Students Society : Merium, Rabo, Haleema, Saima, Armeen, Zilli, Lakhshmi, Jennifer, Sarah, Eman, Dee, Saher, Aqsa, Dantini, Paras, Sorat, Shahbano, Tooba, Sanyia.
Hussain, Ali, Shahzaib, Vishnu, Toby/China, Salar, Reza/Canada, Bilal, Awais, Haider, Jordan, Faraz, Wajahat, Umer, Zaeem, Mustafa, Ahsen, Danyial, and Ibrahim.
And having said that, and paid total respects on behalf of the entire world, it may be pertinent to ask all of you, for a status update on operational structures' and a update on Global Elections.
TRUTH BE SPOKEN :
Tech That Needed Fixing : Epic failures this year exposed your personal data to hackers, wasted your money on unnecessary or ethically dubious products and fed you one hell of lot of misinformation.
Equifax: When security breaches happen, you typically have to change your passwords or cancel your credit cards. But this year's hacking of Equifax, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies was unprecedented.
HACKERS exploited a weak point in website software to gain access to sensitive information like Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers for as many as 145 million Americans.
If you have any credit, you are probably part of the breach and vulnerable to identity theft.
THE FALL OUT will probably cause headaches for years. The best defence tactic is a hassle; You should freeze your credit with all three credit reporting agencies:
.- Equifax
.- Experian and
.- TransUnion. -
Because an identity thief could use your personal information to apply for credit at a lender or company that checks files with only ones of the agencies.
What's more, freezing your credit may require a small fee, and the same fees may apply to unfreezing it whenever you want to apply apply for a new credit.
Equifax's top executive resigned after the scandal but the company has yet to disclose what it will do to prevent another breach.
JUICERO: Juicero, a Silicon Valley start-up that raised about US$ 120 million from investors, went up belly up this year.
It makes this list of this year's tech failures because it created a kind of product that most of us never needed in the first place.
Juicero's products? It sold a $700 juicer with a twist : The fresh produce came packaged in proprietary bags, which the juicer could press with four tonnes of pressure to create the juice.
As the produce came in neat packages, it could easily be discarded, sparing enthusiasts the cleanup of a typical juicer [a chore that you can easily handle with a dishwashing machine].
Here's how we know that most of us didn't this : Some Juicero investors told Bloomberg News that people could simply squeeze the juice bags with their hands and get roughly the same amount of juice -sometimes even faster than the machine.
[In one test, a Juicero machine took more than three minutes to squeeze a bag of Kate juice, but squeezing a bag by hand took about two minutes.]
Over its short life span, the Juicero plummeted in price to US$400 before the start-up totally shutdown.
UBER: To be clear, Uber's failures have more to do with the company and its work culture than the app you are familiar with. The ride hailing start-up was a scandal magnet this year.
After Uber employees aired complaints about sexual harassment, the company did an internal investigation and fired 20 people.
The New York Times also reported that the company had used a secret program, code-named Bryeyball, to monitor and evade law enforcement officials.
It didn't end there. Eaymo, the self-driving car unit of Google's parent company. Alphabet, sued Uber, accusing it of stealing trade secrets.
In addition, Uber recently disclosed that hackers stole 57 million driver and rider accounts in October 2016 -after keeping the breach secret for more than a year.
Travis Kalanick resigned as the company's chief executive amid a shareholder revolt. Uber's new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, now faces the tall order of repairing the company's reputation.
FAKE ACCOUNTS ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK
Remember all those hate tweets that you saw about Hillary Clinton? Many of them may have been fake?
In 2017, many Americans found out that they have been unwitting readers of propaganda and fake news seeded by Russian agents.
They saw the posts on technology platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google in 2016, which may have influenced how Americans voted during the presidential election.
This year, investigations by The Times and the Cybersecurity firm FireEye revealed that the Russian operators had used hundreds and thousands of bots, or automated accounts pretending to be people, to post anti-Clinton messages.
Facebook and Twitter have said they are stepping up efforts to disable fake accounts. But the damage has been done.
As the saying goes : an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, and the social media sites did very little to prevent fake accounts from being created in the first place.
The Honor and Serving of the latest operational research on Technology and Development continues.
With respectful dedication to the Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:
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Good Night and God Bless
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